The Democracy Ranking is an annual ranking of all democracies (country-based democracies) in the world by focusing on the Quality of Democracy in an international perspective. The Democracy Ranking publishes the ranking scores and displays ranking score increases or decreases over time. The Democracy Ranking is a ranking of the Quality of Democracy in the sense that the ranking scores should reflect a ranking of democracies according to their differing qualities; and the Democracy Ranking is a ranking for the Quality of Democracy, because it wants to contribute conceptually to how democracy quality may be measured as well as wants to support the awareness how important democracy quality is for the further development, reform and enhancement of democracies.

Every year, Fortune magazine publishes two lists of companies ranked by revenue: Global 500 - a list of top 500 worldwide companies, and Fortune 500 which is a list of top 500 United States corporations. 2016 was the year Forbes marked its' 63rd running of the Fortune 500 list.
In this dashboard, the data for the Fortune 500 companies is presented. As of 2016, Fortune 500 companies together represented two-thirds of the US GDP with $12 trillion in revenues, $890 billion in profits, $19 trillion in market value, and employed 28.2 million people worldwide.
In 2016, WalMart Stores - which retook the top spot again - followed by Berkshire Hathaway and Apple were the top three companies in Fortune 500 list by revenue. WalMart has been the first company on this list since 2012 followed usually by Exxon Mobil, Chevron, and Apple. No one company has such a huge number of employees as WalMart does - 2.3 million people.
Other top spots of 2016 Fortune 500 list were distributed as follows: Apple was the leader in profits in absolute terms for the third year running while eBay dominated in profits as a share of revenues of as much as 81 percent;Netflix boasted the highest return to investors of an average 42 percent at annual rate over the last 10 years;Mastercard demonstrated the highest return to shareholders of 58 percent at annual rate over the last 10 years;Fannie Mae, mortgage loan financial corporation, held the top position by the total value of assets unchanged from the previous year.Explore the latest data from Fortune 500 by choosing a company and an indicator below or download the dataset.

Ivan Lapickiihttp://jp.knoema.com/user/1051100Demography statistics: ranking by life expectancy at birth//jp.knoema.com/xdexthd/demography-statistics-ranking-by-life-expectancy-at-birth2013-03-10T14:42:06ZIvan Lapickiihttp://jp.knoema.com/user/1051100

Ivan Lapickiihttp://jp.knoema.com/user/1051100Median Age of Population: Ranking by Countries//jp.knoema.com/qvffbvg/median-age-of-population-ranking-by-countries2013-03-10T14:34:51ZIvan Lapickiihttp://jp.knoema.com/user/1051100

Japan is the top country by median age of the total population in the world. As of 2015, the median age of Japan's population was 46.35 years. The top 5 countries also include Italy, Germany, Portugal, and Bulgaria. The median age of the population in Japan increased from 28.78 years in 1970 to 46.35 years in 2015 growing at an average annual rate of 5.45 %.
The median age of the population is an age that divides the population in two parts of equal size, that is, there are as many persons with ages above the median as there are with ages below the median. It is expressed as years.

Ivan Lapickiihttp://jp.knoema.com/user/1051100Governance Around the World//jp.knoema.com/dtrkoec/governance-around-the-world2012-11-02T13:33:44ZBalaji Shttp://jp.knoema.com/user/1000220

This dashboard provides an information about governance trends by country from different points of view, namely: The Open Budget Index measures the overall commitment of countries to transparency,The Press Freedom Index illustrates just violations of freedom of information,The Worldwide Governance Indicators shows the views on the quality of governance provided by a large number of enterprise, citizen and expert survey respondents in industrial and developing countries.
*Explore Worldwide Governance dataset for more relevant indicators.